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Patient owns 347 games on Steam. Has played 14. The other 333 were purchased during various sales — summer, winter, autumn, and a mid-week flash sale patient still cannot account for. The library is, functionally, a digital cemetery of good intentions. Patient has added two more games to the wishlist this morning. The wishlist is separate from the backlog. The wishlist is a pipeline into the cemetery.
Chronic. Each seasonal sale adds faster than patient plays.
None. The backlog has become, apparently, its own hobby.
Patients with Terminal Steam-Backlog Guilt typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Steam-Backlog Guilt was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Ludorum cumulatio infinita — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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